It also tells you, in detail, why an entity is on the list; why others have since been removed from the list; and why still others don’t sink low enough to require a place on the list.

Grab Your Wallet also keeps a second list of companies with less direct links to Trump–owners or board members who raised money for his campaign, companies that have advertised on The Apprentice, and the like–that you might wish to boycott, too.

It has notched some notable wins lately. In early February 2017, Nordstrom, which had been on the Grab Your Wallet list, announced that it would stop carrying Ivanka Trump products. (Nordstrom stated that it was dropping the line due to poor sales, and did not acknowledge any direct effect from the boycott, but think–why were the sales poor? Surely the boycott had some effect?)

Nordstrom’s move has since shown how effective boycotting Trump products can be. Trump complained about Nordstrom’s treatment of Ivanka in a tweet; Trump press secretary Sean Spicer characterized the action as a “direct attack” on Trump; and senior advisor Kellyanne Conway flouted government ethics rules by blatantly telling Fox & Friends viewers to “go buy Ivanka’s stuff.” The Trump team’s reactions showed their disdain for the free market and yielded more evidence that that they do not understand, or do not care, why the government has ethics rules against profiting from holding high office.

Help Andrew Gillum register Floridians to vote ahead of the 2020 presidential race.

Gillum made headlines when he fought valiantly in 2018 in the Florida gubernatorial race. (He was narrowly defeated by Republican Ron DeSantis.)

Far from being cowed by the loss, Gillum has devoted himself to fulfilling the promise of Amendment 4, which voters passed last year.

The amendment passed with 65 percent of the vote, more than the 60 percent required to make it law. It will re-enfranchise more than a million Floridians–possibly as many as 1.4 million, the numbers vary–who were barred from voting after a felony conviction.

Republicans know all too well that the more people vote, the more likely their candidates are to lose.

And they also know all too well how critical Florida has been to presidential contests. The 2000 contest hit a serious snag there, with recounts and hanging chads and other absurdities. Ultimately, the Supreme Court stepped in and ruled in favor of Republican George W. Bush over Democrat Al Gore in a decision that deserves eternal side-eye.

Though Amendment 4 was well-written, state-level GOP are doing their damnedest to neuter it. They’re trying to pass a law that would force all ex-felons to pay any and all remaining court fees before they’re allowed to vote again, a move that many have called out as a variation on a unconstitutional poll tax.

Gillum, who had many options available to him after his impressive campaign and close loss, has chosen to invest his momentum in an effort to register as many new Florida voters as possible.

Gillum created Bring It Home Florida to ensure that Amendment 4 works as designed, and to make the state as fierce a fight as possible for Trump in 2020.

We at OTYCD are going to beat the voter registration drum hard in 2019, but we’re starting here.

The most important thing you can do this year, the year before the presidential contest, is to register or help register as many people to vote as possible.

We need to recruit new voters and we need to encourage people to vote. The more who vote, the more likely we are to vote Trump out of office in 2020.

If your funds are limited, the smartest use of your money in 2019 is giving it to Get Out the Vote (GOTV) organizations such as Bring It Home Florida. Even more so than giving it to candidates, to be honest.

If your budget allows, please, do both. But if it doesn’t, put your money into signing people up to vote and removing barriers to voting.

An interesting final note on this. Rick Wilson, a onetime GOP operative who lives in Florida, and author of Everything Trump Touches Dies, had this to say about Bring It Home Florida on Twitter on March 21, 2019, not long after Gillum unveiled the initiative:

1/ A few words about Andrew Gillum’s plan to register a million new voters in Florida.

2/ Once upon a Time in the dark ages of the early 90s the Republican party of Florida got off its ass and started registering voters. This was during the era of Tom Slade, a two-fisted balls-out party chairman and after.

3/ Then came the era of complacency and corruption with Charlie Crist and Jim Greer. (Wrote about it in @thedailybeast years ago. You can Google it.) Rick Scott hated the party and ran his own independent operation. We kind of slacked off on the whole voter reg thing.

4/ Fastest growing voter demo in Florida forever has been non-party affiliated. Basically a tie ball game between the Republicans and the Democrats. Democrats have seen greater greater growth in South Florida, Republicans in North Florida, broadly speaking.

5/ Democratic party of Florida is a gigantic trainwreck without the ability to get out of its own way, to mount a serious campaign operations, or to win statewide races by and large.

6/ Current #: R: 4.7 D: 4.9 NPA: 3.6 The NPA FL voter in the last 20 years is *broadly* a Shy Tory R voter. Call it 55-60ish%. @steveschale or @mcimaps may disagree, but we can parse it later.

7/ So if @andrewgillum is serious, and registers and IDs and *activates* even 500,000 it’s a game changer up and down the ticket. Hillary Clinton’s people talked about doing something similar, but it was a complete Potemkin village.

8/ It would be of much greater consequence than a quixotic presidential bid. If roughly half the Democratic field did the same they would alter the shape of American politics, but doing the gut work of politics is boring and hard.

So, please, let’s support the guy who passed up a run at the presidency to do the boring, hard gut work of politics.

Donate to your favorite candidates TODAY, before the stroke of midnight, to give them an extra boost in their races.

On December 31, 2017, the sage Celeste Pewter (@Celeste_Pewter) alerted us to the power of donating on the last day of the calendar year:

Two things to remember for today: today is a critical FEC fundraising deadline for 2018 candidates, for obvious reasons. If you have a few dollars to share with your candidate of choice, do.

If you’re wondering why these deadlines are so critical: donations are a sign of a candidate’s viability, essentially. Because donations are public record, the more cash on hand a candidate has => the more other people are willing to donate.

@tomakeanend and I have sat down in front of our computers and frantically refreshed to see how much $ our opposing candidates have had, and have used that to help determine the course of a race.

David Slack (@slack2thefuture) was thinking along the same lines in December 2017:

As you’ve probably noticed, there’s a big fundraising push going on right now from all the new Democratic challengers stepping up to take on Trump’s GOP in 2018. And here’s why:

There’s a Federal Election Commission fundraising deadline tonight. Candidates are evaluated based on how much they’ve raised and from how many donors — and that will determine how much support they from the party and others.

If we want a big #BlueWave in 2018, the work starts right now — and it starts with you. Here’s a list of great people who are ready to stand up to Trump & the GOP. Please give as much as you can to as many as you can — even a $1 or $5 monthly donation makes a difference.

After tweeting the names and handles of several 2018 candidates, he ended with:

We can do this. We must do this. But 2018 will not be a spectator sport. No one gets to sit on the sidelines. Step up, donate — your money, your time, & your voice are more powerful than you realize. #Resistance is not futile.

Admittedly, 2019 is an off-year for elections. But elections will happen nonetheless. If you know of any candidates who will run who you want to support, give them money today. That goes double if your candidate is in the primary stage and need to break away from the pack.

If you have the money to give, and/or you can dip into your 2019 fund, please do it before the clock strikes twelve tonight.

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Are you sick of banks? We at OTYCD don’t blame you, and we’d like to suggest an alternative: a credit union.

A credit union is a non-profit member-owned cooperative. It exists to help people manage their money instead of making a profit off of them.

Fees tend to be lower and customer service far better than at traditional banks. Credit unions generally offer free checking accounts and do not charge you if your balance falls below a specified amount.

Credit unions are often more community-oriented as well, and concerned with helping, supporting, and building the local community in a wide variety of ways–offering small business loans, providing financial education, sponsoring local events, and even offering scholarships.

There are drawbacks to credit unions. They generally offer fewer financial products than banks do. Their ATM networks aren’t as broad as those of traditional banks, which means you might pay fees to use machines that don’t belong to the credit union (but ask about this–many credit unions reimburse a certain number of withdrawals per month). Credit unions aren’t as abundant as banks, and you might have trouble finding one near you that you can join.

Regardless, it’s an option worth exploring, especially if you’re fed up with the banking system and fed up with being treated like a cash cow.

Do you have a local independent bookstore? Spend money there, early and often. And stop buying your books, or anything really, at Amazon until it pulls its ads from Breitbart and stops carrying Trump products.

Reading is good. Fundamental, even. If you are lucky enough to have an independent bookstore near you–aka not Barnes & Noble–go spend some money there as soon as you can, and make a plan to swing by on a regular basis. Also, follow your local indie bookstore on social media, attend its events, and bring your friends, too.

Independent bookstores were vulnerable before Amazon arrived (Barnes & Noble did much to kill them) and not much has changed. Please step up and support your nearest one with your dollars.

Giving indie bookstores your business is a social good in and of itself, no matter who’s running the country, but it takes on greater importance under the Trump administration.

Both #GrabYourWallet and Sleeping Giants have been targeting Amazon for months, because it sells Trump family products and because it has not moved to pull its ads from Breitbart. It has been deaf to all entreaties, even as Sleeping Giants closes in the milestone of convincing 2,000 advertisers to leave the stomach-turning alt-right web site and despite countless calls, emails, and letters from supporters of #GrabYourWallet (As of early April, Amazon ranks as number 5 on the site’s Top 10 list of retailers to boycott.)

Important: You should know that Amazon is a somewhat controversial choice to boycott because its owner, Jeff Bezos, also owns the Washington Post, which has been one of the best, most relentless newspapers covering the Trump administration. Also, the Amazon Prime service makes it cheap and easy to read the Washington Post by offering free access online for six months and then at $4.99 thereafter. For some, Bezos’s support of the Washington Post nullifies any sins that Amazon is perpetrating.

Boycotting Amazon is far more difficult than other retailers because it offers so much more than books. Fortunately, the #GrabYourWallet community is way ahead on this, with a whitelist of alternatives to look to.

Speaking of which–if you don’t have a local independent bookstore and want to stop giving money to Amazon, try these shops instead:

Feed hungry would-be voters through Pizza to the Polls, an organization that delivers pizza to voters waiting in line, as well as protestors.

Democracy is hard work. Hungry work, sometimes. When long lines form at the polls, some folks might give up and go home if they’re hungry or have no hope of getting fed and voting before they have to be back at their jobs.

Enter Pizza to the Polls, an organization that accepts reports of poll lines and sends pizza to those waiting to vote.

As of December 24, 2017, Pizza to the Polls has accepted more than $50,000 in donations and delivered more than 2,500 pizzas to voters in Chicago, Miami, Cincinnati, JFK airport, Dulles airport, and more. It also delivered pizzas to people in Washington who protested the GOP tax bill in December 2017.

Note: donations are not tax-deductible.

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In late May, word broke that Souza’s next book would come out in October and bear the name Shade: A Tale of Two Presidents.

Yes, it is exactly what you think it is.

Yes, we haven’t read it yet and we’re asking you to lay down money, pledging to buy it before it comes out.

Why, you ask? Simple. By pre-ordering a book, you show the publisher that there is clear demand for it.

If folks are clamoring for a book by a certain person, or on a certain subject, the publisher might contract more books by the same people, and more books on the same topic.

We liked Souza’s other recent book on Obama. We’re pretty sure we’re gonna like Shade, having followed Souza’s Instagram account for a while now. Please step up and put your money where your mouth is.

Ditto for requesting it from your library. Yes, it’s not available yet, but libraries figure out how many copies to order in part by tallying the requests they get for a title. By asking for it now, ahead of the October 16, 2018 release date, you boost sales of the book and make it more available in your community’s library system.